Liisa Mudist:
Fallen Alien
60 x 80 cm
oil on canvas, 2026

, Liisa Mudist  , 

, painter  ,  poet  ,  critic ,

I am an Estonian painter, poet and critic.In painting, I mainly work with self portrait in which I deal with my own queer sexual and gender identity. I do this sometimes simply painting a rainbow, but my main interest is the feminine in my personality. I have arrived to the point where I identify as nonbinary, going by they/he pronouns, and internally I see myself more as traditionally masculine, whereas I have led the majority of my life as a girl/woman, and I have gained and internalised many aspects of the feminine gender identity. I am interested in expressing an identity that isn't only one thing, I aim to express the beauty and complexity of the human experience of sexuality and gender.  
I often refer to my parents and grandmother in order to set myself on a lineage, to express I am not just an original identity, but I come from a certain time and place. One way I do this, is to include the image of swan in my paintings, since my mother's and grandmother's last name's Luik, meaning 'swan". This last name has passed on through women in my family, and I am also considering using it in the future.
 My poetry has been more experimental in the past, concentrating on the possibility of the sound of the language to create meaning and confusion in a narrative form. Recently I have been writing poems that - topic wise - are about romantic love, pain, but also about my mother. In it I incorporate magical imagery to refer to an idea that as humans, we are not just terrestrial. My newest poems will be published in May 2026 in the magazine Looming in Estonian. 
Upcoming or current or recent past exhibitions
- 30.04.2026 "Tõde ja Õigus" 100. Sada pilku romaanile, Kastellaani galerii, Tallinn
- 14.03.2026 Kevadnäitus, Kunstihoone & EKL galeriid, Tallinn
- 6.02.2026 -  30.04-2026 "Võrk", Bar Salong, Tartu

- 2025 Through the facets of m/y eyes I have no unitary vision of your body, 
The Blue Verve Gallery, Helsinki, Finland
- 2025, Enkeleitä, onko heitä?, Lou Gallery, Helsinki, Finland
- 2025, Naised purskkaevul, Kastellaani Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
- 2025 liberty of saying nothing but also really meaning it,Toinen Silmä, Helsinki, Finland

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* you can contact me for the text file: liisamdst@proton.me